Open Supreme Court Licence

You are encouraged to use and re-use the Information that is available under this licence freely and flexibly, with only a few conditions.

Using Information under this licence

Use of copyright and database right material made available under this licence (the 'Information') indicates your acceptance of the terms and conditions below.

The Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information subject to the conditions below.

This licence does not affect your freedom under fair dealing or fair use or any other copyright or database right exceptions and limitations.

You are free to:

- copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information;
- adapt the Information;
- exploit the Information commercially, for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application.

You must (where you do any of the above):

- acknowledge the source of the Information by including the following attribution statement and, where possible, provide a link to this licence;

  Contains Supreme Court information licensed under the Open Supreme Court Licence v1.0.

- ensure that you do not use the Information in a way that suggests any official status or that the Licensor endorses you or your use of the Information; ensure that you (i) do not mislead others or misrepresent the Information or its source; (ii) do not present the Information in a way that does not have regard to the dignity of the Court and to its function as a working body; and (iii) do not use it in any way that jeopardises the proper administration of justice;

ensure that your use of the Information does not breach the Data Protection Act 1998 or the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 or is otherwise unlawful.

These are important conditions of this licence and if you fail to comply with them the rights granted to you under this licence, or any similar licence granted by the Licensor, will end automatically.

Exemptions

This licence does not cover the use of:

- personal data in the Information;
- information that has neither been published nor disclosed under information access legislation (including the Freedom of Information Acts for the UK and Scotland) by or with the consent of the Licensor;
- the Supreme Court emblem;
- third party rights the Licensor is not authorised to license; and
- information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, and design rights.

No warranty

The Information is licensed ‘as is’ and the Licensor excludes all representations, warranties, obligations and liabilities in relation to the Information to the maximum extent permitted by law.

The Licensor is not liable for any errors or omissions in the Information and shall not be liable for any loss, injury or damage of any kind caused by its use. The Licensor does not guarantee the continued supply of the Information.

Governing Law

This licence is governed by the laws of England and Wales.

Definitions

In this licence, the terms below have the following meanings:

‘Information’ means information protected by copyright or by database right (for example, literary and artistic works, content, data and source code) offered for use under the terms of this licence. ‘Licensor’ means— (a) in relation to copyright, the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, and (b) in relation to database right, the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office

‘Use’ as a verb, means doing any act which is restricted by copyright or database right, whether in the original medium or in any other medium, and includes without limitation distributing, copying, adapting, modifying as may be technically necessary to use it in a different mode or format.

‘You’ means the natural or legal person, or body of persons corporate or incorporate, acquiring rights under this licence.

About the Open Supreme Court Licence

This is version 1.0 of the Open Supreme Court Licence. The Licensor may, from time to time, issue new versions of the Open Supreme Court Licence. However, you may continue to use Information licensed under this version should you wish to do so.

The Information licensed under the Open Supreme Court Licence includes Supreme Court information in which Crown copyright subsists.

Further context, best practice and guidance relating to the re-use of public sector information can be found in the UK Government Licensing Framework section on The National Archives website http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/uk-gov-licensing-framework.htm